Russell Potter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Russell Potter

American writer

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1960

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Profession: novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Russell A.
Potter (born 1960) is an American writer and college professor.
His work encompasses hip hop culture, popular music, and the history of British exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century.
His books include Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism (1995) and Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875 (2007), as well as a novel, Pyg: The Memoirs of a Learned Pig (2011).
He teaches at Rhode Island College, where he is editor of the Arctic Book Review.
He also worked as a consultant on, and appears in, the Nova documentary Arctic Passage (2006).